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Eric Asempah, Hillary Birch, Yuliya Chorna and Nilanjana Ganguli will present their global health research and share insights during the third annual Global Health Graduate Scholars Symposium.
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Lions volleyball coach to lead Team Ontario in 2025 Canada Summer Games
She has led the York University Lions women’s volleyball program since 2018, and now head coach Jennifer Neilson will lead the next generation of Ontarian high performance athletes after she was named head coach of Team Ontario’s indoor volleyball program for the 2025 Canada Summer Games in St. John’s, Nfld.
York professors co-author introductory book on machine learning
A new book that explores how machine learning can be applied to decision-making in practical settings is co-authored by three York faculty members along with a colleague from Ontario Health.
York researcher warns online consumers to read fine print
Professor Jonathan Obar urges online shoppers to pay closer attention to terms of service this holiday season, after research shows most ignore the fine print.
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Faculty of Education Professor and Jean Augustine Chair in Education, Community & Diaspora, Carl James, writes in The Conversation about a recent investigation into grade inflation and whether it’s holding top students back and setting others up to fail
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It’s a rare experience – even for seasoned lawyers. But a select group of students at Osgoode Hall Law School can now add the Supreme Court of Canada to their resumes through their work on a case that will be heard Nov. 29.
Professors Jennifer Bonnell and Sean Kheraj published a new open access book exploring the ways that historians study and analyze the histories of animals.
Performed by students in all years of York’s undergraduate program in dance, this series engages with social justice-oriented themes of resistance and rebellion.
research & Innovation
Politics of climate change offer lessons for fight against antimicrobial resistance
The emerging pandemic of antimicrobial resistance and challenges to addressing it have parallels with climate change, said experts at a recent online panel on AMR Policy Leadership and Innovation, hosted by York University’s Global Strategy Lab.
Call for nominations for President’s Research Awards
The Senate Committee on Awards invites current or emeritus tenure-stream faculty members to nominate colleagues for the President’s Research Excellence Awards. The deadline is Dec. 16.
Monkeypox spreading to urban wildlife could lead to repeated outbreaks, shows mathematical modelling study
Mathematical modelling research in the Faculty of Science, in collaboration with the Public Health Agency of Canada, shows that it would become difficult to control monkeypox outbreaks in a metropolitan area if the virus were to spill over into wild animal hosts, such as rodents.
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York film professor’s documentary explores little-known struggle of the Sinixt people
Twenty-seven years in the making, School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design Film Professor Ali Kazimi’s documentary about an autonomous Indigenous people’s struggle to overturn their legal extinction is set to receive its global premiere.